A dangerous strike, has been pro= coeding at Glasgow. Trouble Is discerned in the coal-mining Industry, London transport workers have Pit forward demands "at the back which ea strike threat looms. "Great Britain, in the ecstasy of a new confidence in recovery, is thus shown the dangers of labour unrest which is 10 be found in other countries. During, the time of extreme depression this movement was less obtrusive. 'The workers, faced with unemployment. and reduced wages, seemed to be concentrating on pre serving what they had poland were chiefly' concerned to resist wage-Feductions where practicable and Tet the rest go hang." Now, with rising, prices and extended employment, there. is a swing of the pondul Efforts "are being made to restore Wwage-culs where that process has not been applied or is laying, Alton tion is paid to hours of work. Fortunately' for Great Britain the organ= Taation' for negotiating between. our and its employers is well equip ped and ina vast number of Indu: {ries amicable settlements have been reached. There is always the danger that resetion from a period of qulescence may lead to ill-considered Interpretations of the improvement trade conditions. The modern tendency to base the worker's. dle= mands on certain conceptions. of the profit accruing from his labour is not necessarily either impracticable unjustified, It may, however, lead to Reglect of the general interests of the community and so. assist in destroying the very prosperity on which that particular Industry de~ ends. Safer as a guide is the aelual economic condition prevailing. Himes it seems that one industry ig wuMeiently seized of the danger of Glaiming privileges to which others wot possibly rspire. Short-slghteelness is mot the monopoly of the worker. Too often the employer is apt to see no further than his own Special concern. Probably. the pres= tent restiveness is less a" portent of IM than a sign of returning stability. It is to be hoped that this view will be proved correct by reason of the sage spirit of compromise Invoked water a1, 15 first quarter of 1036 shows that the marked improvement in the proce-epithets so strong as to suggest that im avoiding breakdowns,
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